The French authorities seized the owner’s luxury property media holding RBCex-member of the board of directors of Russian Railways Grigory Berezkin for €70 million, noticed Director of Transparency International Russia Ilya Shumanov
According to the release of the official website of the Ministry of Justice of France, which was published by Shumanov, we are talking about several chalets in Courchevel. The Berezkin family owns two French companies SCI Sunny Day and SCI Snowy day. Five chalets are registered for Snowy day, two more are registered to another company. The list of seized property includes: Chale Snowy Day, Chale Du Bhoutan, Chale La Mandragore and Chale Du Cachemire. As owners of the company, in addition to Grigory Berezkin himself and his wife Elena, their children are indicated: Matvey, Anna, Sofia. Previously about businessman’s real estate wrote the Scanner project.
After the start of the war, the European Union imposed sanctions against Berezkin, calling him a “minion” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In June, the businessman appealed this decision to the European Court. Berezkin also fell under the sanctions of Great Britain, Australia and lost the “golden passport” of Cyprus.
Berezkin takes 157th place in Forbes ranking with a fortune of $ 750 million. Businessman owns the ESN group. The main areas of activity of the companies are the oil industry, power industry, media and venture investments. This business is closely connected with the Russian authorities – in particular, it supplies electricity to the state-owned Transneft. In an interview, Berezkin said that he travels a lot to Europe for work.
In 2017, he bought RBC media holding from businessman Mikhail Prokhorov. According to vc.ruProkhorov was forced to sell RBC to Berezkin under pressure from Alexei Gromov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia.
[…] According to the Russian Forbes, in 2021, Grigory Berezkin ranked 157th in the ranking of the richest people in Russia with a fortune of $ 750 million.
In July 2021 The Meduza edition reportedthat Grigory Berezkin spoke on the same panel with Ekaterina Tikhonova at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Tikhonova is called the daughter of Vladimir Putin.
Berezkin’s company, to which the chalets in France are registered, is called SCI Sunny Day. According to the documents, Grigory Berezkin himself and his wife Elena Berezkina own it.
And the company, in turn, owns the property of the Les Chalets Du Bhoutan real estate complex worth 5 million euros.
According to data from the cadastral map of France, we are talking about these six chalets in Courchevel right next to one of the ski slopes.
In addition to real estate in France, the documents of the SCI Sunny Day company indicate the place of residence of Berezkina’s wife – Monaco.
Grigory Berezkin was not included in the list of persons against whom the EU and the United States imposed sanctions with the start of Russia’s full-scale offensive against Ukraine. […]